Identity Management

Suen accuses hospital of failure to protect privacy

8 May 2012

Secretary for Education Michael Suen Ming-yeung has accused Queen Mary Hospital of failing to protect his medical records when he had a tumour removed last month.

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letters

12 Apr 2012

Girls-only schools have benefits

I am writing in response to a letter 'School without boys is a sadder place' (Young Post, March 27).

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Magazines breached TV artists' privacy

29 Mar 2012

The privacy watchdog has slapped enforcement notices on two magazines for infringing the privacy of three artists by secretly snapping and then publishing pictures of their private activities last...

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Privacy is for everyone, rich and poor

7 Mar 2012

There has been a lot of news about the unauthorised building work on a senior official's home recently. But I am more concerned by the 10 cranes outside his house. I'm not going to discuss whether...

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World-class city should not allow its elderly to languish in helpless indignity

3 Mar 2012

I visited an elderly relative in a Kowloon care home and was appalled by the conditions.

Granted there was a certain degree of cleanliness, but I was struck by the suffocating and...

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Car park firm breached drivers' privacy

15 Feb 2012

The privacy watchdog yesterday said one of the city's leading car park management firms had obtained drivers' information from the government's vehicle registry to promote its services.

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Opinion

Placating graduates a work in progress

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George Chen

For HSBC, the first love is apparently not the deepest

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Naked to the world, digitally speaking

The Hong Kong man who inadvertently triggered a cross-border culture war over a mainland girl eating on an MTR train has apparently apologised.

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Banks on privacy watchdog's radar

The selling of millions of users' personal details for profit by smart card operator Octopus last year shocked our community.

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Companies Unwilling to open up on data

Businesses are fighting moves to make them reveal what kind of online customer data they have collected and why - and whether they pass it on to third parties. They are also being...

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Complaints to privacy watchdog on the rise

Complaints to the privacy watchdog rose by almost a fifth in the first half of the year. It attributed the increase to growing awareness stemming from last year's Octopus Cards scandal.

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Banks rapped for selling personal data

Four banks sold tens of thousands of customers' personal data to insurance or marketing companies without their agreement, the privacy commissioner disclosed yesterday.

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Privacy watchdog probes Manulife

Hong Kong's privacy watchdog is looking into allegations insurance giant Manulife is asking customers to agree to revised online terms that appear to breach guidelines issued in the wake of the...

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